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  1. Circulating Water Tunnel

    Date released
    1969
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    16
    NoS ID
    350815
    Story no
    5 / 5

    COI synopsis: This is the marine architect’s version of the aircraft designer’s wind tunnel. Improvements of only a few per cent in ships’ performance can save millions of pounds.

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  2. Fijians On The Retriever

    Date released
    Feb 1966
    Series name
    Parade
    Issue no
    29
    NoS ID
    352526
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: A cable maintenance ship crewed by Fijian sailors and a visit they made to Cranwell for a game of rugby.

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  3. Design For Deep Diving

    Date released
    1970
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    30
    NoS ID
    350904
    Story no
    2 / 5

    COI synopsis: Claimed to be the most compact self-contained diving package in the world - the Strongwork modular diving system eliminates the six to seven hour slow decompression delay normally needed in...

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  4. Launch of HMS Liverpool (1982)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Report on the launch of HMS Liverpool. Joiner, Burt Cunningham(?) and Managing Director of shipbuilders Cammell Laird, Alistair Lambey(?) comment. Male reporter not identified.

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  5. Steam As It was (1985 Video)

    Director
    Ken Wrench
    Producer
    Ken Wrench
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col.

    Finely constructed working models are used to trace the development of steam power from Heron of Alexandria and Branca, via Newcomen and Trevithick to heavy industrial and marine engines.

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  6. Underwater Light Bulb

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    106
    NoS ID
    325468
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: A new divers’ lantern has a bulb which needs no cumbersome waterproof housing, and which can be changed underwater. Even when the bulb has been working for hours, it can be plunged into icy...

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  7. Water: Angus

    Date released
    1976
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    173
    NoS ID
    325731
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: A few new angles on one of the most important elements in our lives - water. A remote-controlled submersible designed specifically to take the danger and the expense out of underwater...

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  8. Jim

    Date released
    1974
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    131
    NoS ID
    325551
    Story no
    1 / 3

    COI synopsis: ‘Jim’ or ‘Homo Aquatico Metallicus’, is a diving suit which looks more like a space suit. Inside its lightweight magnesium alloy body a diver breathes air at normal pressure, eats his...

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  9. Diving House

    Date released
    18 Feb 1965
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    530
    NoS ID
    121615
    Story no
    2 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: The Royal Engineers diving team, experts in river reconnaissance and demolition, are training for an experiment in underwater living. A special perspex dome was built to allow divers to eat...

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  10. Aids To Perception: Seeing With Sound

    Date released
    1976
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    187
    NoS ID
    325799
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: The ordinary underwater camera cannot perceive images in cloudy underwater conditions. A new television system, which harnesses invisible sound waves, has come to the aid of the camerman,...

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